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A Quarterly Review of Social Reports and Research on Social Indicators, Social Trends, and the Quality-of-Life.
News included of Working Group 6 on Social Indicators and Social Reporting of the International Sociological Association.

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Summer, August 1998, Number 55

SOCIAL REPORTS AND TRENDS:
Social Trends "Down Under" for 1997 and 1998

Abbott Ferriss enthusiastically describes the the usefullness of volumes

and the changes in the volumes that make each volume valuable

Social Weather Reporting in the Philippines

Kenneth Land reports on the presentation made at the World Congress of Sociology meeting.

He describes the survey process and some of the charted results

Briefly Noted

Abbott Ferriss briefly reviews the following papers, articles, volumes, and essays:

Measuring Well-Being: Proceedings from a symposium on Social Indicators.
Quality of Life Therapy and Assessment in Health Care.
Society, Culture, Development.
In Pursuit of the Quality of Life.

Social Indicators and Social Reporting at the 1998 World Congress of Sociology

Kenneth Land gives a few notes to give the flavor of the rich variety of papers given at the

1998 World Congress of Sociology in Working Group 06 (Social Indicators and Social Reporting)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The International Social Survey Program

New U.S. State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 1997-98

and the Statistical Abstract of the United States: Library Edition

New Demographic Software

The 1998 ISQOLS Conference

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